Lentz Imperfect Balance

Landscape Transformations in the Pre-Columbian Americas
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-231-50551-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 788 Seiten

Reihe: Historical Ecology Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lentz, David

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword, by William Denevan
1. Introduction: Definitions and Conceptual Underpinnings, by David L. Lentz
2. Climate Changes in the Northern American Tropics and Subtropics since the Last Ice Age: Implications for Environment and Culture, by David A. Hodell, Mark Brenner, and Jason H. Curtis
3. Vegetation in the Floristic Regions of North and Central America, by Andrew M. Greller
4. Anthropocentric Food Webs in the Precolumbian Americas, by David L. Lentz
5. Prehispanic Agricultural Systems in the Basin of Mexico, by Emily McClung de Tapia
6. Prehispanic Water Management and Agricultural Intensification in Mexico and Venezuela: Implications for Contemporary Ecological Planning, by Charles S. Spencer
7. Stability and Instability in Prehispanic May a Landscapes, by Nicholas Dunning and Timothy Beach
8. Precolumbian Silviculture and Indigenous Management of Neotropical Forests, by Charles Peters
9. Native Farming Systems and Ecosystems in the Mississippi River Valley, by Gayle J. Fritz
10. Hohokam Impacts on Sonoran Desert Environment, by Suzanne Fish
11. Vegetation of the Tropical Andes, by James Luteyn and Steven Churchill
12. The Lake Titicaca Basin: A Precolumbian Built Landscape, by Clark L. Erickson
13. Andean Land Use at the Cusp of History, by Terence N. D'Altroy
14. Lowland Vegetation of Tropical South America -- An Overview, by Douglas Daly and John Mitchell
15. The Lower Amazon: A Dynamic Human Habitat, by Anna C. Roosevelt
Summary and Conclusions
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Lentz is director of the graduate studies program at The New York Botanical Garden. He is the author or coauthor of and contributor to more than fifty scholarly articles and books.